Helmsdorf Castle (Stolpen)
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The Helmsdorf Castle is a castle ( mansion ) in the district of Helmsdorf in the municipality of Stolpen in Saxony . The building is now a listed building .
history
The history of the castle is linked to the Vorwerk Helmsdorf: After the Vorwerk and Gut came into the possession of Moritz von Sachsen in 1543 , the first castle building was planned as a mansion and built according to the dates available on the building until 1597. In 1711 a family Schröter (later von Schröter ) became owners of the castle and the associated economic areas, which were gradually sold. At the turn of the 20th century, it consisted practically only of the castle itself, a few usable areas and around 45,000 m² of park area around which the Wesenitz flows .
In 1906 the Dresden banker Charles Friedrich Schmieder bought the property, whose wife was a descendant of the composer Franz Liszt . Schmieder's idea was to build a representative residence and to convert the castle almost completely. The Dresden architects Lossow & Kühne received the order for this conversion, which was practically equivalent to a new building.
With this conversion by the two architects, the Helmsdorf Palace was turned into a spacious country house. The historicizing elongated, two-storey building with a gable roof and volute gables and a round tower on the west side was decorated with plaster. The coat of arms of the von Schröter family was preserved, as were numerous remains of the old castle. Inside, salons were arranged, which were lavishly paneled with precious wood. According to the current owner, the concerts of the Liszt community that took place here received a great response. However, the plans to redesign the park could no longer be carried out due to the outbreak of the First World War and were not carried out afterwards either.
In 1937, the state guild of the bakery trade acquired the property, which used it as a technical school and as a rest home even after the Second World War and its successor during GDR times. However, many maintenance and repair measures were neglected or only carried out with delay, so that the large property fell into disrepair from the 1980s onwards. In the 1990s, the guild decided on a new building in Dresden - the facility is now called Sächsische Bäckerfachschule Dresden-Helmsdorf - and sold the property in 1999 to a private individual who, according to its own statements, is gradually renovating it, but also making it available for events.
Currently (2020) the castle and ancillary buildings are in a state that is in dire need of renovation or in a state of ruin.
literature
- Anja Weber: Are you interested in Helmsdorf Castle? In: Sächsische Zeitung from 16./17. June 2018, p. 21.
Web links
- Private website about Helmsdorf Castle
- Historic photo of the castle before 1967 (Deutsche Fotothek)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '18.1 " N , 14 ° 1' 44.7" E